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Did It for the Money: This 32-Year-Old Joined the Army for a $300,000 Dental School Scholarship
Today, Vo lives with his fiancé, Marcus in Costa Mesa, California, works as a pediatric dentist and earns roughly $200,000 per year.
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Pentagon Will Require COVID Vaccine for All Troops by Sept. 15
The Pentagon says it will be requiring all members of the U.S. military to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, a deadline that could be moved forward if it receives final FDA approval or if infection rates continue to rise.
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Senate Confirms Christine Wormuth as First Female Army Secretary
Christine Wormuth has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the first female secretary of the Army
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U.S. Army Makes a Major Change to Body Fat Standards for New Moms
The Army just made a huge change in policy for moms. On Friday, the Army announced that active duty or reserve soldiers who have just given birth will have 365 days to meet body fat requirements, instead of the previous 180 days. Moms in the miltary welcomed the change. U.S. Army Major Natalie Mallue said the new policy means she…
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Army: Sick Soldiers Drank Compound Found in Antifreeze
U.S. Army officials say 11 soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas were sickened after drinking an industrial compound found in antifreeze
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Trump Doesn't — Then Briefly Does — Wear Mask in Stands at Army-Navy Football Game as Covid Rages Across U.S.
The failure by Trump to wear a mask at the Army-Navy game came amid a record number of deaths from coronavirus, and as a Covid-19 vaccine was approved for use.
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National Museum of the US Army Opens on Veterans Day
The National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is opening its doors on Veterans Day.
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Vanessa Guillén's Family Opens Up About Fort Hood Soldier's Death on ‘Red Table Talk'
Weeks before her disappearance, slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén told her mother that she had been sexually harassed at the Army base and was afraid to speak up because of what Gloria Guillen calls a culture that protects abusers in the military at the expense of victims like her daughter, NBC News reports.
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Army: Independent Probe Coming After Fort Hood Soldier Death
U.S. Army officials say they will begin an independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood following calls for a more thorough investigation into the killing of a soldier from the Texas base
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Army Speaks Out on Vanessa Guillen, Missing Fort Hood Soldier
The U.S. Army, which has come under criticism by the family of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen, is speaking out, addressing questions about the investigation into her disappearance more than two months ago.
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‘Life Gone Too Soon'; Waterford Man Remembers Brother Killed in Combat
This Memorial Day, people across the state found a way to hold ceremonies amidst the pandemic. Whether it was online, at a distance or behind a mask, people took a moment to remember. It was the kind of remembering that has consumed every day of Jacob Cullers’ life since 2011. “It is not just Memorial Day,” Cullers said. “It is…
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Military Sexual Assault Reports Rise, in Air Force Above All
The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased slightly last year, with the Air Force showing the biggest jump of all the services
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Hidden History: America's Atomic Veterans
The enemy Hank Bolden faced didn’t come from a faraway front line. It came from the skies. It’s a battle he’s still fighting 65 years later. Bolden, now 82 years old, is an atomic veteran – one of the hundreds of thousands of American service members used in human experimentation by the U.S. government during nuclear testing after World...
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CT Veteran Was Used in Atomic Experimentation
A New Haven veteran is one of only a few surviving African-American service members who were used as human experiments during atomic bomb testing after WWII.
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Haiti Police Exchange Fire With Troops Near National Palace
Haitian police officers have exchanged gunfire for hours with soldiers of the newly reconstituted army outside the national palace.
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2 US Service Members Killed by Roadside Bomb in Afghanistan
Two U.S. service members were killed and two others injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement Saturday. In keeping with defense department rules, the U.S. military did not identify the service members. But a statement issued by Aurora, Illinois, Mayor Richard Irvin said Miguel Villalon, 21,...
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Possible ‘White Power' Hand Signs at Army-Navy Game Probed
The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with “white power” and were televised during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia on Saturday, school officials said. Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two...
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Trump Administration Quietly Releases Lebanon Military Aid
The Trump administration has quietly released more than $100 million in military assistance to Lebanon after months of unexplained delay that led some lawmakers to compare it to the aid for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment inquiry. The $105 million in Foreign Military Financing funds for the Lebanese Armed Forces was released just before the Thanksgiving holiday and...
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Mystery Grows Over Trump Administration Hold on Lebanon Aid
The Trump administration is withholding more than $100 million in U.S. military assistance to Lebanon that has been approved by Congress and is favored by his national security team, an assertion of executive control of foreign aid that is similar to the delay in support for Ukraine at the center of the impeachment inquiry. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on...